Manhattan attorney Robert Feldman must take down allegedly defamatory comments he made about negative online reviews that he believed were written by a former client, Justice Cynthia Kern has ruled, though she declined to bar such statements in the future.

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Robert Feldman did not negotiate a severance package for me from Barnard College, which summarily fired me as soon as the accusations became known. This false claim concerning a "severance package" was neither backed up by any evidence from Feldman, nor conceded by me. The court simply made a factual error.